Chuck Royce is held in esteemed company by Fortune/CNNMoney. In putting together the Fortune 40, its model retirement portfolio, Fortune claims to have tapped “the stock-picking strategies of the investing world's brightest minds: Jeremy Siegel, Peter Lynch, Benjamin Graham, Chuck Royce, and John Templeton.” In a separate piece, Chuck is also praised for the management of Royce Pennsylvania Mutual Fund (PENNX), which Fortune calls a “stellar choice…with a very experienced manager at the top who knows how to trade small-cap stocks in various cycles.”